Homestead: Kenseth post qualifying interview

MATT KENSETH
-- No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Qualified 3rd)
HOW WAS YOUR RUN?
"I'm
looking forward to starting up there. I haven't been able to win
yet this year and it's kind of our last shot, so I had a really
good qualifying lap. It didn't...

MATT KENSETH
-- No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion (Qualified 3rd)

HOW WAS YOUR RUN?

"I'm
looking forward to starting up there. I haven't been able to win
yet this year and it's kind of our last shot, so I had a really
good qualifying lap. It didn't feel very good and I didn't
think I did a great job, but we had a lot of speed in the car, so if we
can get it to drive right, at least we know the speed is there."

IS IT UNUSUAL TO WIN A RACE AND THEN HAVE THEM HUSTLE YOU OUT OF THE
PRESS ROOM FOR THE CHAMPION LIKE LAST YEAR?

"It's a cool
race to win. It's the last race of the year, so, yeah, the
championship is going on and there's a lot of other stuff going
on. Obviously, if you don't win the championship with the race
it's kind of split, but I was lucky enough to be on the other side
of that one time when Bill won Rockingham, too. It's cool to win
anytime you can, especially the last race of the year because you
can't get beat the next week, so you've kind of got all
winter to be a little bit happy about your win and enjoy it."

THERE ARE CONSPIRACY THERORISTS OUT THERE WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S
KEEPING YOU FROM TAKING OUT JIMMIE JOHNSON ON SUNDAY?

"Common
sense." WHAT MAKES ROUSH FENWAY SO GOOD HERE? "It seems
like their stuff has always been pretty good on the mile-and-a-halfs and
tracks this size, but I think we have tracks that maybe suit each
particular driver or team maybe a little bit better, but, really, if you
look at the organization as a whole, I don't know if they have a
lot of weak points. Carl has run great everywhere this year. Greg has
run really good at the flat one-mile tracks. Jamie runs real good at
Martinsville and some of those tracks. I personally have some tracks
that I think I'm real weak at in the 17, but, as a group, it seems
like somebody is able to get it right or get it pretty close every
week."